smooth scrolling

[John]

   I see the way in which fields scroll (particularly with something like a magic mouse) as an issue.  They don’t “feel” right and, in the app produced, users do notice.  In fields with a lot of text, the field jumps in large increments.  It looks bad and I do get feedback that the field is hard to read because of the “jumps”.

   If you have a fixed length field that is not too long (or short) you can script your own scrolling by capturing the rawKeyDown message.  The length of the field plays into this because the message fires just infrequently enough that the information you need isn’t there.

   I am really hoping that when cocoa is fully implemented we will get native fields with smoothly scrolling and, please, OSX style spell checking.  I fear that may not be the case due to a desire to have things be cross platform.

   So, please do file a report.

Thanks,
John


On Jan 11, 2014, at 12:41 PM, stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> I've just figured out what's bothered me most about Livecode fields and why
> they act different than native fields (at least on the mac).
> 
> They are not very 'magic mouse' friendly - and any vertical scrolling type
> gestures on it get translated into 'rough scrolling' moves ( jumps line by
> line as opposed to pixels ) everywhere, and at the same time the horizontal
> scrolling is totally free.
> 
> As a result there is a lot of unintended text movement - the Magic Mouse is
> VERY sensitive. And when a small movement mistake is made, the attention to
> the current line is totally destroyed when the viewport moves wildly about
> the screen.
> 
> This drives me nuts.  I thought smooth scrolling was a non-issue anymore on
> a mac. Yet there it is.
> 
> "Real" text fields in other apps don't do this.  Only Livecode has these
> antiquated field specs… is there any way to get smooth scrolling from
> gestures?
> 
> Why was this overlooked? Is this a major weakness? Was the feature limited
> for speed reasons, and why can't it be on a par with other applications?
> Or is it 'dumbed down' to meet the limitations of other platforms?
> 
> Should I file a report, or am I just PNP?
> *--*
> *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words*
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